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front teeth. The shock knocked him down. He got up 

 slowly, and growling his displeasure at such treatment, 

 they all three went off slowly together. The good man 

 thought himself very fortunate, as he was, and took another 

 road. A few days later the Kikuyu killed the lion and 

 brought in the skull. Strange to say, though the great 

 tooth was shattered, the jawbone was not broken. 



